As the managing editor of the Gutsy Issue of G-Woman Magazine, I felt a responsibility to include real-world examples of everyday women making gutsy decisions. Hence, I reached out to 5 women who I believed embodied the archetype of a G-Woman: Gifted, Genius, and Gamechanger.

I wanted to know what “Gutsy” meant to them. I admit I was very curious to know what each of them would answer to my question...

“What is the Gutsiest Decision You Ever Made?”
The gutsiest decision I ever made? I walked away from a high-powered corporate role with the paycheck and prestige that came with it because I was getting physically sick and compromising my values. I left without a plan, without a parachute, and built my business, an idea that wasn’t even on my radar. I hired a coach, designed a vision from scratch, and became the woman I needed and wished I had back then. Now I build bold women into unforgettable leaders without asking them to shrink, hustle harder, or compromise who they are.

Judy Hoberman, Founder - Selling in a Skirt

The gutsiest decision I ever made was to move to a new country without knowing anyone or having any clear plan! But I did have determination, and 34 years later, I’d say it worked out very well.

Mindy Gibbins-Klein, Award-winning Speaker and Entrepreneur 

My gutsiest decision was to start my own consulting business after being in an international company for 13 years. Twenty-one years later, I am so very grateful to still be doing what I love.

Lisa Scott, Executive Coach and Life Coach

Seventeen years ago, I made the gutsy decision to divorce my cheating husband, build my own business from the ground up, and work from home so I could raise my two boys and care for my veteran father until the day he died—and all these years later, it’s still the best decision I ever made. 

Sandra Beck, Beck Multimedia

The gutsiest thing I ever did was step out of thirty years of private whispers into the light—hosting monthly Galactic Psychic Readings and interdimensional healings on Zoom—risking my mother’s fears and society’s skepticism to honor the whispers of my own soul. 

Lucy Mcmonagle, Galactic Psychic & Energy Healer

A gutsy decision was choosing entrepreneurship over the safer path of placements or interviews at multinational companies or Big 4 firms. While many of my peers pursued stability, I chose uncertainty and the risk of building something of my own. Entrepreneurship wasn’t the safe choice, but it was the right one for me. It gave me purpose, independence, and a platform to create change on my own terms. Building and scaling Girl Power Talk has been one of the most risky, challenging, and rewarding decisions of my life. 

Rachita Sharma, Financial Literacy Advocate and Entrepreneur. 

Closing

I am grateful to each one of these women for taking the time to answer the question I posed to them. I am not surprised that, for entrepreneurs, their gutsiest decision was to start their own business. Being an entrepreneur is a gutsy decision regardless of who you are, male or female, with statistics showing that 20% of new businesses fail in the first year and 50% are gone by year five. It’s a high-risk venture with a high failure rate. But being a woman, a single woman with children, like Sandra Beck, well, you have got to have cojones.

Did you know that there are 252 million female entrepreneurs in the world, and only 27% of all small business owners in the USA are women? I am happy to report that the women who are featured here are all successful, gutsy women, and if this is something you are considering, then you couldn’t do better than to model yourself after any one of these incredible women.